Nuttier than a nut... in a jar of nuts?
We are getting a new kitchen! It's all very exciting, but it is, of course a lot of work. Tomorrow we have to pack up most of our kitchen storage areas and the dreaded dumping ground walk in pantry. A walk in pantry sounds like a really cool idea, like a butler's closet or something, but this is just a very skinny room with hangers on the wall, some shelves very high in the air and at the very back, four very deep and difficult to keep organized shelves. We live in a century home, so there is very little storage, and this area is the only closet on the main floor. It is therefore home to the vacuum cleaner, the ironing board, reusable and plastic garbage bags, aprons, screwdrivers and tape measures, and all manner of baking accoutrement, not to mention all the food we have hoarded away due to our Costco addiction. Tomorrow will be a crazy day.
Speaking of crazy, check this out.
This is a hat.
Well, it's a half of a hood/scarf/hat thing. I don't know what to call it. A hooded collar? Anyway, this is just a test to see if my idea would work on a small scale. there is a provisional cast on along the top of the head (like where your Mohawk would be, if you were into that sort of thing), there are short rows and there are decreases.
There is also a leaf border, but that was a different test.
Here it is now, after figuring out the border, and doing some math (badly), casting on 165 stitches, getting more than halfway through a ball of Noro yarn, and realizing it was waaaay too long and I only needed 115 stitches. I had a ripping good time making a little frog pond and started again. Which was actually not a bad thing, because it allowed me to review my instructions to begin the project. If this looks half decent when I'm done I'll share the pattern on Ravelry.
After all the hoopla trying to make little monkey's scarf work, I hope that this crazy experiment works out. I have high hopes.
Crazy thing #3:
The amount of stuff I found under the couch.
Also, these wild and crazy socks.
This yarn does some interesting things at different stitch counts, which I had forgotten about the first time, but one does forget certain things after 10 years or so. The best part about knitting a pair over a decade is that you forget about the process of creating the first, and then the second one comes out well, and all of a sudden you have a pair of socks that just kind of appear!**
I'm glad I chose Slide as the pattern for the second sock. it's the same rib pattern as the first one, but in reverse, with a literal twist. I only wish I'd gone down a needle size. The fabric is not quite skimpy, but the stitches are a little too loose to look great. You can't tell from the picture, which is probably a good thing. In any case, they are a comfy and completed pair of wild and crazy socks.
** It occurs to me now, that I have never mentioned these socks before. I had completed the first a very very long time ago, got the worst case of SSS (Second Sock Syndrome... look it up) in the world, but continued to randomly wear the sock with other random socks for a while. That is until this month, when I decided it was time to stop being so nutty and just knit a second one! I figured if I was only going to have to knit one sock anyway, I may as well have some fun with it. And so it was that I have one of the craziest pair socks I've ever worn.
Speaking of crazy, check this out.
This is a hat.
Well, it's a half of a hood/scarf/hat thing. I don't know what to call it. A hooded collar? Anyway, this is just a test to see if my idea would work on a small scale. there is a provisional cast on along the top of the head (like where your Mohawk would be, if you were into that sort of thing), there are short rows and there are decreases.
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| From the side and the front . it's just big enough for a pig timer... |
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| ... to wear on exactly half of it's head. Kind of. |
There is also a leaf border, but that was a different test.
Here it is now, after figuring out the border, and doing some math (badly), casting on 165 stitches, getting more than halfway through a ball of Noro yarn, and realizing it was waaaay too long and I only needed 115 stitches. I had a ripping good time making a little frog pond and started again. Which was actually not a bad thing, because it allowed me to review my instructions to begin the project. If this looks half decent when I'm done I'll share the pattern on Ravelry.
After all the hoopla trying to make little monkey's scarf work, I hope that this crazy experiment works out. I have high hopes.
Crazy thing #3:
The amount of stuff I found under the couch.
Also, these wild and crazy socks.
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| along the leg is a kind of zig zag, but at the foot it does a nice stripe thing. |
This yarn does some interesting things at different stitch counts, which I had forgotten about the first time, but one does forget certain things after 10 years or so. The best part about knitting a pair over a decade is that you forget about the process of creating the first, and then the second one comes out well, and all of a sudden you have a pair of socks that just kind of appear!**
I'm glad I chose Slide as the pattern for the second sock. it's the same rib pattern as the first one, but in reverse, with a literal twist. I only wish I'd gone down a needle size. The fabric is not quite skimpy, but the stitches are a little too loose to look great. You can't tell from the picture, which is probably a good thing. In any case, they are a comfy and completed pair of wild and crazy socks.
** It occurs to me now, that I have never mentioned these socks before. I had completed the first a very very long time ago, got the worst case of SSS (Second Sock Syndrome... look it up) in the world, but continued to randomly wear the sock with other random socks for a while. That is until this month, when I decided it was time to stop being so nutty and just knit a second one! I figured if I was only going to have to knit one sock anyway, I may as well have some fun with it. And so it was that I have one of the craziest pair socks I've ever worn.
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